Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama

"[F]ew devices could be better designed to exacerbate racial tensions than the consciously segregated districting system currently being constructed in the name of the Voting Rights Act." Holder v. Hall,512 U.S. 874, 907, 114 S.Ct. 2581, 129 L.Ed.2d 687 (1994)(THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment). These consolidated cases are yet another installment in the "disastrous misadventure" of this Court's voting rights jurisprudence. Id., at 893, 114 S.Ct. 2581. We have somehow arrived at a place where the parties agree that Alabama's legislative districts should be fine-tuned to achieve some…